Team Defence Information News

Defence Information 18 On One Page! It's somewhat larger in life - be there on April 18 & 19

DI'18 in stats to date: it's over 2 days, attracts circa 350, has 13 top speakers from MOD & Industry, 2 panel sessions, 12 workshops - two sets of three each day, has 20 exhibitors and sponsors, has up to 10 Good Practice entrants for the 2018 Excellence Award, has enough dining places for those wishing to join the Event Dinner, has a special App to keep delegates informed and a host of support staff and caterers to ensure you have a focused, yet relaxed time at Defence Information 18. If you haven't yet done so - book now more

Added: 15th March 2018

Calling Young Professionals to benefit from joining the Good Practice Study Group 2018 - Entries Open to 23 March

Team Defence Information Good Practice Study Group - Call for Participation in 2018

The Joint Information Group (JIG) has published a report on how MOD and Industry can share Architecture Models and Artefacts, with the aim of improving collaboration, increasing efficiency through reuse and reducing interoperability risk in Defence Capability. "We are now on the journey to creating industry standard, and shareable, artefacts for Defence Services", said Steve Latchem, MOD Chief Architect & Head of Architecture more

Added: 14th March 2018

Nigel Whitehead, Chair Team Information, visits Briarlands office

Nigel Whitehead, Chair Team Defence Information and CTO BAE Systems, paid a visit recenty to our Briarlands office, in part to see the changed office layout. Following a meeting with MD Phil Williams, Nigel chatted with the Task Force members that were in the office. Nigel commented that the welcoming environment and qualtity meeting facilities were conducive to good collaborative outcomes for members working with the MOD. more

Added: 13th March 2018

Stephen Lovegrove on Managing the UK Ministry of Defence: speech at RUSI

A lecture by Stephen Lovegrove CB, Permanent Secretary, UK Ministry of Defence. In his lecture, Stephen discussed the challenges of managing the Ministry of Defence, in particular making Defence more innovative and protecting the UK in uncertain times. more

Added: 13th March 2018

DE&S CIO seeks CTO (new role)

Information about MOD Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) developments with regard to "building a brand new strategy, almost completely from scratch, to launch our Technology capability forward". more

Added: 1st March 2018

New MOD CIO Charles Forte States ICT Priorities

The incoming MOD CIO, Charles (Charlie) Forte has stated 5 priorities in a Town Hall address made in February 2018 to MOD ISS staff, as reported in MOD ISS ISSue4 publication. Read more... more

Added: 1st March 2018

TD-Info at DPRTE at Cardiff, 27 March

TD-Info Task Force members will be participating in the UKís leading Defence Procurementand Supply Chain Event and look forward to meeting members and contacts on 27 March at the Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff

The latest release of MOD Information Systems & Services magazine has news items about a range of topics that help Industry awareness. This has significant potentially value for Industry given it is a sizeable (Indirect) customer for MOD ISS. more

The DISCOG will continue reviewing what's happening under the specialist working groups at its quarterly meeting on 22 March. These inlude: the Packaging for Equipment Acquisition and Support WG, (PEAS), the Combined Technical Documentation WG, (CTDWG) and the Committee on Automatic Testing for Defence, (CATS4D). Also, updates from the Defence Support Network Transformation Programme, (DSN(T). more

Added: 1st March 2018

TD-Info at Combat Support Week

TD-Info participated in the Combat Support Week event which ran parallel tracks on Defence Supply Chain and Logistics and Military Engineering. Speakers included Maj Gen Angus Fay, Assist Chief of Defence Staff (Logistics) and Lt Gen Darrell Williams, Director DLA for US DoD more

Added: 28th February 2018

Update on Industry Customer Engagement Forum (ICEF) activities

The ICEF held its six-weekly session at MOD Corsham on 26 Feb. Valuable discussions, updates on actions and consultations covered a range of topics... more

Added: 27th February 2018

Joint Forces Command Roles & Who's Who (published 25 Jan 2018)

The government website provides a page with information including Job title, Job/Team Function and, in some cases, Name of the person in post under the heading "Transparency data - Joint Forces Command senior, as of April 2017" (published 25 Jan 2018).

Two AI Reprots: Malicious use of Artificial Intelligence & Social Implications of AI

A report created by a number of academic and civil society organizations on the risks from malicious uses of AI and the steps that should be taken to mitigate them in advance. Of particular concern has been the potential interactions between computer security and AI. At present, computers are inherently insecure, and this makes them a poor platform for deploying important, high-stakes machine learning systems. It's also the case that AI might have implications for computer [in]security that we need to think about carefully in advance. The AI Now Report is about the social implications of AI. more

Added: 21st February 2018

Army seeks Industry inputs to Blueprint for the Future Collective Training System (FCTS)

The Army are extremely keen to ensure that Industry inform the Blueprint for the Future Collective Training System (FCTS), one of the key outputs of the Collective Training Transformation Programme (CTTP). The seek detailed Industry responses in the form of a White Paper to questions set out in the Paper available to TD-Info members more